DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced the introduction of the DuPont™ Cyrel® Quality Assured Platemaking program. This updated program builds on the 15-year tradition of the Cyrel® QA Tradeshop program, and is now being offered to both printers and tradeshops in North America who process digital Cyrel® plates.

As a leading supplier of equipment and services to the packaging industry, Bobst spends a lot of time and effort getting to know its customers. Now, both existing and potential Bobst clients, as well as the general public, can find out more about Bobst, thanks to a short video.

U.S. packaging machinery shipments increased by 6 percent, to $7.9 billion, in 2013; and a rise in retail-ready packaging (RRP) is changing the role of secondary packaging, according to PACK EXPO owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Despite weakness for most of this year in the USA, global old corrugated container (OCC) prices are likely to face "upward pressure" in the future because of rising demand and already high recovery rates, RISI Sr Economist Hannah Zhao said earlier this month at RISI's recent 16thInternational Containerboard Conference in Chicago.